Idioms

BEAT ABOUT/AROUND THE BUSH - If someone doesn't say clearly what they mean and try to make it hard to understand, they are beating about (around) the bush.,To treat a topic, but omit its main points, often intentionally.
Eg- -Explain your point to me more clearly and stop beating around the bush.'
     -'Tell me exactly what happend and don't beat around the bush.'


BURY THE HATCHET -To forget about arguments and disagreements with someone and to become friends with them again

 Eg-Tom and I buried the hatchet and we are good friends now 

ALL AND SUNDRY
(collectively) all, everyone

Eg- The security guru mailed to all and sundry in Parliament House.

clutch/grasp at straws  -ig. to continue to seek solutions, ideas, or hopes that are insubstantial. When you talk of cashing in quick on your inventions, you are just clutching at straws. That is not a real solution to the problem. You are just clutching at straws.

See also: clutch, straw

IN BLACK AND WHITE-

BLACK SHEEP

BARE THE TEETH-

To FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL FOR VICTORY

 

A RED LETTER DAY-A day that is memorable because of some important event

TO KEEP THE POT BOILING -To see the interest does not die down

TO KICK THE BUCKET-To Die 

 straw in the wind-something that shows you what might happen in the future There were straws in the wind that suggested a strike was likely.